Sometimes, however, organs can only be brought back to nominal function, creating dependence on others to supply sustenance.
The house has plenty of bedrooms, but three generations spend their nights in the room with the hospital bed, with a suctioning machine and a respirator ready in case they are needed, and with a feeding tube supplying sustenance to the man who was now, with the cry he could manufacture, asking for some unspecified form of attention.
And you have to make a decision that you'll do whatever you can diplomatically, working through the international community or perhaps providing sustenance and medical supplies and support for humanitarian purposes, but you're not going to commit U.S. troops to combat to deal with that particular situation.
The émigrés could supply literary sustenance to dissidents, but Abdülhamid could not be overthrown while the army remained loyal.
The first principle of military strategy is to separate the enemy from a source of supply and sustenance, through isolation or outright destruction.
To 'sustain' has been defined as 'to supply with sustenance and to nourish' [ 24].
After more reasonable sustenance than candy was supplied alongside buckets and buckets of water, we hosted a farewell dance party.
This shift in their status as producers contributed to their demise as full-time pastoralists, since they became both partly dependent on non-pastoral economic activities and entirely reliant on an imported food supply for their sustenance.
How much energy should we devote to ambition and professional competition, and how much should we rely on those in our personal lives to supply soul-enriching sustenance?
These creatures, and the protection, sustenance, clothing, and labor they supplied, were key factors that allowed our nomadic ancestors to form permanent settlements.
